Numinous Nonsense

Cross-Disciplinary Mastery

Sitting down at Bookends coffee shop, waiting on a friend. I haven’t had much I’ve wanted to blog about lately, so to break the silence I’m going to try to blog about not blogging. Yes, it’s lame, but if you want to keep the flow going you got to just do it. [...]

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Exponential Growth of Consciousness - Wilber and the Singularity

Just caught this portion of an interview between Acne Paper and Ken Wilber as seen on his blog. This question, and Ken’s answer, are directly related to something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. Basically if we look at Kurzweil’s theory of “the law of accelerating returns,” where he is describing exponential [...]

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Blogmandu, How I Love You

Vince of Numinous Nonsense is on his way to being as fit as Schwartzenegger was at his age or as Ken Wilber was at age 50. I am unclear on what Vince’s intent is here. To be a hunk? Does Emily know? - Blogmandu Roundup, Aug 11 I think the question of what my intent is, [...]

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The Year of the Goal Follow-Up. Goal #4.

My last goal, and consequently the one I have sucked ass on, was to gain a basic knowledge of Thai. All in all, I have done absolutely zero study of Thai, mainly because I don’t plan on going to Thailand anymore (more on that later). The other reason is because I have no [...]

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The Year of the Goal Follow-Up. Goal #3.

Alright, moving right along with this fun-goal-follow-up here is where I’m at with my third goal, Improvement of Overall Health: This goal, as I mentioned when I first created it, is pretty broad. In order to narrow it down I made some specific commitments, which were the following: * Gradually eliminate junk foods (high glycemic index/load [...]

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The Year of the Goal Follow-Up. Goal #2.

My second goal was to, by the end of the year, be meditating 2 hours a day. I was doing pretty well with this goal up until the month-long retreat I attended in May. I was slowly but surely making my way to 2 hours a day, sitting something like 1 hour & [...]

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